Dark Prince

Chapter 13

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Derek's POV

I sat on the chair in the bedroom with both hands together, legs apart. I was waiting for her to wake up, I refused to go anywhere, it's been twenty minutes since Althea left. I have a way to convince her to let me explain but I wasn't still sure it would work out.

I heard a groan from her side on the bed and quickly stood up and rushed to her. She tried to get up but was still weak and dropped back to the bed. I poured water from the jug in its place on the table beside the bed and slowly raised her up and brought it to her mouth to drink. With a still closed eyes, she drank more than half of the water before she nudged her mouth to the other side meaning she was okay.

"Little mouse, hope you're okay? What do you want?" I asked in hope she might be hungry.

As expected she woke at her pace according to Althea.

She opened her eyes and widened it. I could see lots of expression pass through her face, Shocked, Surprised, angry, then it later settled on what made my stomach to drop, fear. If she was angry at me, I could handle that but I don't want her to fear me.

She suddenly stood up from the bed in the fear I knew written all over her face and scurried to the far end of the bed.

I raised my hands up in the general gesture of  'I meant no harm'  but she wasn't having that but kept looking at me with a new expression which I would never forget. I could feel the hate she felt towards me rolling off her in triple folds.

I gushed out a breath and dropped my hands. I've composed what I would say to her before she woke up but standing in front of her now, I am dumbfounded and speechless.

I stepped back and started pacing, back and forth and vice versa. Then I turned towards her.

"I am lots of things but not a rapist or an abuser of children. I am the prince of my kind while I am also the to-soon-be crowned King of all supernatural being after the necessary rites. As the prince of my people, I serve as the law maker, the enforcer and also the executioner when need be. In my world violence is inevitable. I have been seeing violence as far as I could remember knowing my right from left. I had to learn how to stand up for myself at a tender age and I knew how hard my childhood was, I'm not going to play the victim card with you because I am not. My point is that I would never raise my hand on a Child or Woman".. I stopped pacing to look into her eyes but I found she wasn't paying attention to what I was saying or she wasn't just convinced but rather she was glaring at me.

I was angry at her, It took lots of courage to say what I just said, the least she could do was to pay attention. I knew i wasn't being considerate but after my discussion with Althea I knew we had limited time. Stivenski and Gaila wants my mate but I won't take it lightly with someone that wants to hurt our mate.

So I growled deep low under my breath to snap her back to attention. It worked and she gave me the dirtiest look ever.

"Mae please just listen to me, I would never abuse a child.."

"Oh! I see but tell that the helpless little boy you were torturing earlier" I could see the anger swimming in her eyes, I was getting pissed but was pleased to know she wasn't scared of me anymore. I would rather have her angry at me than to be afraid of me.

"You could have instructed the guards to not allow her entry" Ryder inputted

"Will you shut it up and let me deal with this mess?" I angrily snapped at him in my head but at the same time I just remembered something, when she got to the dungeon I could have perceived her scent even all the way from the door to the dungeon but I was surprised to now realize I didn't even pick up her scent at all until she saw me, that's isn't possible unless..